My advice to the Guv is
to throw a “Flake.” Overnight the biggest personal check the law allows to Doug
Jones ASAP. If Jones pulls it out, Baker will be able to say that he has, in
fact, “put his money where his mouth is” and will continue to oppose unfit
candidates regardless of their party label.

Obamacare stands and Medicare and Social Security are still in place, but it looks like the Koch Brothers instruction to get their tax cuts or else has the Republican Congress in craven obedience. It's enough to make the Kochs Time Magazine's Men of the Year.

There are a lot
more unknowns about the 2018 Massachusetts governor’s race today than there
were a month ago. The pundits, pollsters, insiders, and blogging profs can be
forgiven for attempting to apply conventional wisdom to this popular parlor
game, but when it comes to the potential toxicity of Donald Trump in 2018, we
may have to recognize a new species of unknowns that would probably even
befuddle Donald Rumsfeld himself. In the Age of Trump we may have to get used
to grappling with “virtually certain unknown unknowns.”

Yesterday morning I assumed that Charlie Baker would earn
re-election the old fashion way. Today, I have my doubts.The situation is so potentially unstable, in
fact, that I wouldn’t be shocked if Charlie Baker ends up running for
re-election as an independent.